When Federal support to green cities by supporting electric zero-emission vehicles was offered by The EV Project, Seattle was quick to seize the opportunity and Nissan, excited to debut its electric coupe, the Nissan Leaf, has moved to supply that practical demand. As...
By, Uwe Paschen. Replacing at least 90% of all conventional Gasoline powered automobiles in Japan with in the coming decade with environment friendly vehicles. This was the election promise last August made by our...
created by Uwe Paschen | 2 years ago | updated 1 year ago 1949 views | 71 recommendations | 23 comments
Well such a small problem would not put me off of buying a nice clean and green mean machine. We use electricity that sourced from geaothermal power generation. But of course here we have no worries about a...
created by Babel-Fish | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 101 views | 12 recommendations | 2 comments
A recent observation by the Liverpool Telescope on the Canary Island of La Palma in coordination with NASA's Swift satellite has indicated the first detection of magnetic fields in the afterglow of a Gamma Ray...
opinion by mgmirkin | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 261 views | 38 recommendations | 9 comments
An Australian couple, the Evringhams, have built a house that rotates to follow the sun. The whole house is turned by a motor not much bigger than that in a washing machine and enables the house to make the...
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It seems that space age instruments are now finding evidence of water-ice in the many locations we have pointed them to look. The latest to be confirmed includes asteroid 24 Themis. But is it from subsurface...
opinion by mgmirkin | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 881 views | 29 recommendations | 8 comments
Recent data from the moon indicates that OH (hydroxyl radical) and/or H2O (water) may exist on or above the surface of the moon. But what does it mean and how does it relate to active processes at Mercury,...
opinion by mgmirkin | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 571 views | 72 recommendations | 9 comments
Renault is joining forces with Better Place, provider of electric vehicle services, to develop and mass produce three electric vehicle models. The cars will initially be marketed in Denmark and Israel. Renault plans on producing 160,000 vehicles per year. What's different...
General Electric Co. has been charged with misleading its investors through improper accounting aimed to make the company seem more attractive to potential investors. The charges against General Electric were...
created by Annina Bergman | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 1057 views | 24 recommendations | 1 comment
" Nissan has unveiled an affordable electric family car that could soon be sitting in thousands of garages around Britain. The five-seater Leaf hatchback will be charged from a plug socket at home and has a top...
opinion by Babel-Fish | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 311 views | 2 recommendations | 9 comments
" Nissan, Japan's third biggest automotive group, is to plough £200 million into electric car production in a move which will create 350 new jobs and could safeguard thousands more. The car giant announced...
opinion by Babel-Fish | 2 years ago 248 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
Well, it seems that Mercury and Earth aren't so dissimilar after all, at least in terms of their magnetospheric interactions with space. But, I wonder, when does anecdotal evidence cease being anecdotal and...
opinion by mgmirkin | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 1149 views | 50 recommendations | 11 comments
All things old are new again... Hundred-year-old electrical science has finally come back into fashion! The latest results from the THEMIS satellite fleet leave no wiggle room. The auroras are powered by what...
opinion by mgmirkin | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 641 views | 68 recommendations | 9 comments
" Car manufacturer Renault-Nissan is to sign a deal with the Irish Government this month, on bringing its electric vehicles to the Irish market. The Government wants 250,000 cars and vans, or 10% of vehicles, to be...
Soft drink giant PepsiCo is starting to test their lastest environmental idea: green vending machines. These will hopefully reduce carbon footprints and electric bills. In Washington DC, 30 machines have been set up for testing, and Pepsi hopes to release them worldwide in...
created by Amy Judd | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 164 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments